See elective in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "1697, John Dryden, The Works of Virgil […] translated into English Verse, London: Jacob Tonson, dedicatory preface to the Marquess of Normanby,\nFor his Conscience could not but whisper to the Arbitrary Monarch, that the Kings of Rome were at first Elective, and Govern’d not without a Senate:"
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"ref": "1782, William Cowper, “The Progress of Error”, in Poems,, London: J. Johnson, page 43:",
"text": "Man thus endued with an elective voice,\nMust be supplied with objects of his choice.",
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"ref": "1854, George Bancroft, chapter 35, in History of the United States of America, from the Discovery of the American Continent,, volume 6, Boston: Little, Brown, page 185:",
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"ref": "1860, Walt Whitman, “Proto-Leaf”, in Leaves of Grass, Boston: Thayer and Eldridge, page 21:",
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"text": "1896, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, “The South African Question” in Speeches and Writings of M. K. Gandhi, Madras: G.A. Natesan, 3rd edition, 1922, p. 6,\n[The bill] says that no natives of countries (not of European origin) which have not hitherto possessed elective representative institutions […] shall be placed on the voters roll […]"
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"text": "After accounting for all of my required courses, there is hardly any room in my schedule for any elective ones.",
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"ref": "1654, Thomas Hobbes, Of Libertie and Necessitie, London: F. Eaglesfield, pages 12–13:",
"text": "[…] his Lordship is deceived if he think any spontaneous action after once being checked in it, differs from an action voluntary and elective, for even the setting of a mans foot, in the posture for walking, and the action of ordinary eating was once deliberated of how and when it should be done, and though afterward it became easie & habitual so as to be done without fore-thought, yet that does not hinder but that the act is voluntary and proceedeth from election.",
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"text": "1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, London: T. Payne & Son, and T. Cadell, Volume 5, Book 9, Chapter 8, pp. 160-161,\n“You know not then,” said Cecilia, in a faint voice, “my inability to comply?”\n“Your ability, or inability, I presume are elective?”\n“Oh no!—my power is lost!—my fortune itself is gone!”"
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